An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
November 25, 2022 6:32 PM
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?...
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
November 11, 2022 6:14 PM
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
November 03, 2022 7:42 PM
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop...
Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3
October 12, 2022 1:00 PM
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report...
The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare...
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July 14, 2022 5:16 PM
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising...
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July 14, 2022 1:00 PM
Mantis - the most powerful botnet to date
We named the botnet that launched the 26M rps (requests per second) DDoS attack "Mantis" as it is also like the Mantis shrimp, small but very powerful...
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July 08, 2022 5:28 PM
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers....
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July 06, 2022 12:55 PM
DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network...
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June 29, 2022 12:55 PM
Internet Explorer, we hardly knew ye
With the recent retirement of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, we analyzed Internet Explorer traffic trends. Breaking the traffic down by bot score revealed much of this traffic is “likely automated”...
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June 09, 2022 1:41 PM
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites...
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May 19, 2022 1:30 PM
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory...
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May 10, 2022 6:02 PM
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy. ...
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May 04, 2022 6:12 PM
Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region...
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April 26, 2022 6:17 PM
Two voting days, a debate and a polling rule in France impacts the Internet
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
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April 20, 2022 2:03 PM
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
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April 12, 2022 1:12 PM
DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
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April 11, 2022 5:30 PM
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
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March 29, 2022 12:37 PM
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
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